KEVIN LARMON

Kevin Larmon (b. 1955, Syracuse, New York) is an American artist whose paintings explore the shifting boundaries between abstraction, figuration, and psychological experience.

Emerging from New York’s East Village art scene in the early 1980s, Larmon exhibited with Nature Morte, a gallery central to that experimental moment. His early Black Still Lifes, with their dark surfaces, layered imagery, and unconventional materials, established a distinctive visual language concerned with concealment, desire, and the instability of representation.

Over the following decades, his practice evolved through biomorphic abstraction, cellular imagery, figurative painting, and drawing. Throughout these transformations, Larmon has maintained an interest in the emotional and physical possibilities of painting.

Larmon participated in Aperto ’86 at the 1986 Venice Biennale. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and an Atlantic-Pacific Fellowship, and is Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University. He lives and works in upstate New York.